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What counts as "AI Slop"?

Flathub Discourse [Unofficial] June 4, 2026
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The past weeks, I was working on a small application that I want to publish on FlatHub soon. I did not use AI coding agents in the process, apart from infrequent consulting or getting ideas (AI is very helpful where GTK docs have gaps).

However, I now noticed that GitHub offers Copilot code review. I want to try that out on my code base before publishing, maybe it can find something I haven’t noticed. Would my app count as AI slop then? What’s the threshold to “AI slop”?

I’ve seen past MRs to the flatpak-github-actions repository that were flagged as “AI slop” and I think one criterion is that the code was committed at once or created within hours, right? I originally wanted to merge all current commits into a single commit because they all represent intermediate states and contain some debug code and mistakes that I prefer not to show publicly. But I’m afraid that if I compress all commits into a single large one, it would also be a strong sign for “AI slop”.

Since I wrote it by hand over the span of 2-3 months, I would feel a bit insulted if my code was being flagged as such.

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